What I like about blogging is that you can write a post and the folks at the Nonprofit Quarterly take notice and want to publish it on their site. So you go ahead and rewrite it. Voila! New version of your post, written better with a much better title. Still focused on how the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia forgot that they govern a public institution.
Mapping Your Passion
Passion is one of the most misunderstood forces in social impact work. We often treat it as fuel, something to burn through in service of urgency. Or as identity, “This is who I am, therefore I must keep going.” Or as motivation, “If I care enough, I’ll find the...